Repub WI state Rep and Veteran says attacks on Kerry "Un-American"

[Tarheelhombre]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24891-2004Aug22.html

The campaign got some unexpected help from Wisconsin state Rep. Terry M. Musser, a Vietnam veteran and co-chairman of Wisconsin Veterans for Bush. Musser lambasted the Bush-Cheney campaign in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over Republican attacks on Kerry's military record. "I think it's un-American to be attacking someone's service record. Period," Musser said in a Washington Post telephone interview. "The president has an opportunity here to stand up and demand that the attacks be stopped."

[Kimber Scott]

1. Great article and Bush calling for all 527s to stop advertising is not

good enough. 527s have the right to advertise. They don't have the right to lie and be egged on by the President of the United States.

[JI7]

2. does he come from a moderate to liberal leaning area ?

i suggested a few days ago that we pressure republicans who come from these areas and especially those up for election this year to defend kerry and to condemn the attacks on kerry. and to have them call on bush to condemn the attacks on kerry also.

[scarletwoman]

3. I wonder if this is the Journal Sentinel piece being referred to:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug04/252665.asp

"I just think it's wrong."

That's not one of Kerry's fellow Democrats talking. It's Terry Musser, a Republican state rep, longtime chairman of the Assembly Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, and the co-chairman of Wisconsin Veterans for Bush.

Musser served two tours as a paratrooper in Vietnam, and he's disgusted by these attacks on Kerry. And he doesn't particularly like the Democratic presidential nominee.

"He was there. He did it. My opinion is that anybody who served anywhere is a hero. And we should not as a nation be trying to tear down people who served and are serving," Musser said when I reached him by phone Friday. He represents the Black River Falls area in the Legislature.

Bush ought to condemn the ads from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, even though he can't stop them, Musser said.

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